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Sunday, June 19, 2011

If you are thinking of moving to Terlingua...

For those who think a move here might be right for them - today it got up to 116 in the shade and it hasn't rained in almost 9 months. A brilliant quote from my friend Ian Midgley - there are no posers in Terlingua - only survivors.

Decided on a perfect work combo for a HOT Sunday. First thing - I detached the shredded roll out awning feature on the trailer. Fired up the AC on the Airstream next to test it out and extracted the offensive cabinetry installed 2 owners ago. Sure it was functional - but oh so wrong for this creature. Spent 3 hours in air conditioned comfort (thanks to generator power) taking apart the mess and chucking it out the door. Already have a taker for the counter tops and cabinets. 106,116,76,0,C

Anybody think Im nuts, I grew up in El Paso were I saw it top 114 degrees and now I live in South Texas with the humidity and the Heat Index was 108 degrees a day or two ago.

I can survive Terlingua, it just takes some common sense to survive the desert. The hard part to surviving Terlingua is the high gas and food prices and the isolation from medical care im getting from the Veterans Administration, thats the hard part.

here in America the social cleaning (poor to outer third class schools) exists for ever....its called capitalism, laws of the market, yu go to schools were yu live....black hispanics take the tool...better be in TERLINGUA or Alpinewill do